North to Alaska, Shadowmeboy's Jewel Shimmering Pictorial Review

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Throwing the hook to pull a crab pot.

 

 

 

 

grabbing the buoys

 

 

hand coiling the line

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pulling the pot up.

 

 

 

 

showing how to hold the crab and not get pinched.

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Snow Crab (Bairdi or Opilio crab)

 

 

 

Holding a box crab

 

 

Susan is a little too excited here.

 

 

Jenny holding a box crab

 

 

Susan holding a snow crab.

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Can I get some butter?

 

 

Jenny didn't want to get pinched

 

 

Jenner holding a crab

 

 

Captain Ray with a box crab.

 

 

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A picture with Captain Ray

 

 

 

 

launching the pot back into the water.

 

 

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Andy a little too excited.

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they pulled up a sting of pots which were tied together. Strings would often have hundreds of pots, for our tour it had 3.

 

 

catching prawns in the pots.

 

 

 

 

dropping the string back into the water.

 

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Andy is holding an Alaskan Red King Crab

 

 

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how to measure a king crab to make sure it is large enough to harvest.

 

 

 

If a crab loses a leg, it will regrow as part of its molting process. the crabs molt to grow.

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this is a memorial pot, and it shows the size of crabs without losing crabs to predators like octopus.

 

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This is a traditional pot for King Crab in the Bering Sea.

 

 

 

Setting the pot back.

 

 

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Pulling up another surprise.

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An octopus

 

 

 

 

We left the waters of Annette Island and headed back towards Ketchikan. Annette Island is a Indian Reservation. In the treaty they signed with the US Government, they control the Island and the waters and bays within a 1/2 mile of the island. The Bering Sea Crab Tour has agreements to use their territorial waters. They could not do a tour like this in Alaskan Territorial waters.

 

 

 

 

a picture with Andy and Paul

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the yacht that followed us into Ketchikan that morning.

 

 

US Coast Guard navigational buoy ship.

 

 

 

 

passing by the Jewel

 

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berth 2

 

 

After the tour was done, Jenny and Jenner headed back to the ship to get lunch.

 

Susan and I decided to get lunch on shore. We watch Deadliest Catch and knew the family that runs the crab boat Brenna A on Deadliest Catch has a restaurant in Ketchikan. So we went there.

 

 

Dwyers menu

 

 

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So while we were waiting for the food to come, several whales came through the harbor. They were actively feeding, we saw the whales, but I was not able to get a picture before they dove. I heard they ended up bubble feeding just of the aft of the Jewel a few minutes later.

 

 

I got the halibut burger

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Susan got the Alaskan Red King Crab Tacos. Both entrees were really good.

 

 

After lunch, we walked back to the ship.

 

 

We got back on board, rested for a bit, and I headed up to Great Outdoors. I enjoyed watching the working of the port.

 

 

 

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An Alaska Airlines plane took off from Ketchikan and looked like it was headed for Seattle.

 

 

 

It was almost time to pull out of Ketchikan.

 

 

 

Coast Guard ship arriving into Ketchikan

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lines being thrown.

 

 

 

a jellyfish

 

 

 

underway

 

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Creek Street

 

 

Spruce Mill Way

 

 

Dwyers

 

 

The Christmas in Alaska shop pictured there is really cool. Great place to get Alaska ornaments.

 

 

panorama leaving Ketchikan

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Berths 1 & 2

 

 

Radiance of the Seas in berth 3

 

 

 

Safeway - 4 times to Ketchikan and I still haven't been!

 

 

Susan took a picture of the treats after returning from the thermal spa.

 

 

An Alaska State Ferry

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Alaska State Ferries maintenance and ship building facilities.

 

 

Ferry to/from Gravina Island and Ketchikan International Airport

 

 

terminal

 

 

Alaska State ferries has a ship under construction

 

All of a sudden, I hear a big roar to my right. I turn and see an Alaska Airlines flight landing at Ketchikan.

 

 

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That was really cool to see!

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zoomed in view of the Alaska State ferry construction

 

 

I got talking to Jeff and I reminded him about the Latitudes party for Silver and above.

 

I started heading to the room to change and walked through the buffet.

 

 

It was Asian night. I was able to get pictures without a thousand people in the way.

 

 

 

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